Short by 215 Votes: Tre Watson's Run for College Station Council

He came within 215 votes of a College Station City Council seat. Now he's back on the ballot.

Tre Watson is a fifth-generation College Station native whose family roots run back to Sterling Street, and a former student of host Michael Prejean. In this first episode of The Network's Policy, Political Discourse & Elections Series, Tre breaks down how generational families lose inherited homes, what Texas Senate Bill 1567 changed about the "No More Than Four" occupancy rule, the tension between the City of College Station and Texas A&M, and why a city law only takes four votes.

We also walk the Funky Four Corners (spiritual, physical, mental, and financial), including what it took to come back after crying over a razor-thin loss.

📌 Texas voter registration deadline for the Nov. 3, 2026 election: Monday, October 5. Check your status at votetexas.gov.

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CHAPTERS

1:18 Meet Trey Watson – Candidate College Station City Council, Place 5

2:23 Educational disclaimer2:47 Flowers While They Can Smell

3:44 Moses Sterling: Five Generations of Roots

5:09 Teacher & Student, 20 Years Later

6:37 Sterling Street: Then vs. Now

9:15 When the Neighborhood Changed

10:26 Homestead Exemptions & Losing Family Land

12:19 SB 1567 & the "No More Than Four" Rule

17:38 Who Owns Student Housing?

19:02 First Time at the City Council Podium

21:40 The Rental Inspection Fight

24:08 From the Podium to the Ballot

24:47 Election Night 2024: Short by 215 Votes

28:02 Does One Vote Matter? 30% Turnout

28:45 0-for-5 on Endorsements

30:16 Protecting Older Neighborhoods

33:29 Texas A&M's Growth – Who Benefits?

34:29 "City of College Station, Not the City of A&M"

38:11 Talking to Student Renters

40:15 What A&M Does Well

41:41 How a City Law Gets Passed: Four Votes

43:00 What Being "The First" Would Mean

46:21 Funky Four Corners: Spiritual

47:36 Funky Four Corners: Physical

48:13 Funky Four Corners: Mental – Crying, Then Coming Back

50:50 "Radical" – and in Good Company

52:39 Funky Four Corners: Financial

55:02 Rapid Fire

57:37 Voter Registration Deadline

58:52 Good Medicine: Go for a Walk

1:00:35 Sterling Street, 20 Years From Now

1:01:24 You Didn't Ask: You're Loved

1:03:10 Speak Up, Speak Out, Come Together

1:07:18 Make Love the Culture

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